Glad your using those smod powers for useful IP checkingwho's running CN now days? Anyone actually upto the job or just people who want to make sure thier ads are being spammed everywhere?
lol so they can't promote the forum, post useful stuff, get projects going etc? Everything is done by the users.
New stuff comes from users, updates and everything else... None of the actual staff help by releasing new stuff since they are all keeping it for thier own servers.
Where's Milo? He used to post alot of news and files from the Chinese etc.
Kyn and Lil probably are better than me. I expect them to be, after all they do it for a living, i'm just a student.
Lil doesnt do it for a living, he just got better with my guidance!
Still here, I dropped out of Mir for a while for various reasons. I still check out Chinese sites but most files are packed too well now to be useful and nobody ever took the opportunity to have a totally unique server with Heroes (Myself included there). If something noteworthy popped up I would release. Doubt anyone would use them though.
I'm sure you still have DevilSoul (not asking you to release) but it only went up for a few test i'm sure you could find someone to run it for you but i think it's because no one fully understood the heroes and thought it would unbalance things.
With regards to the state of the forum, I really believe in a more hands off approach. Let the community manage itself rather than coming down strict for every little infraction or fight that happens. If we were strict the forum would be even more dead because we'd of banned nearly everyone here including people who run the most successful Servers. In terms of promotion I'm not a marketing guy and wouldn't want to spam other forums or official Mir with links to ours so mostly we rely on word of mouth from the community.
Maybe infracting for every thing is wrong but i see no moderation in the slightest apart from Matt closing threads when people slate FH too much :P Cleanup would be nice and maybe some fresh guides etc - as for promotion maybe a nice new forum skin/layout and then advertise, your still partnered with Dan in someway as he doesn't touch mir2 so i'm sure he could throw up a small ad somewhere.
In terms of promoting more people to staff pretty much everyone big in the community is tied to one server or another. I also doubt many of them would be interested. They are free to put themselves forward though.
Some mods aren't even active anymore and a few don't seem to be active as in moderating or even posting useful threads, they just pop onto a thread if it's getting out of control and say "Calm it down".
In the end Mir itself doesn't have the same pull it used too and is pretty much relegated to being a small game for a dedicated community. There is loads of usable source code on LOMCN for anyone interested in competing with the big servers. I don't expect to see any of the closed source files being released any time soon unless they are leaked like the RubyM2 files were a while back.
I agree it's getting on now but it is never going to progress if people keep using the Delphi source, the DirectX now can do much more and with the sources out there that people have done it's very possible to get something going within a few hours. All the VB.NET sources that have been released - not exactly the hardest language out there either. I've still got something going so we will see how that goes.
LOMCN will plod on I reckon, hopefully someone will step forward to help advance files for everyone but in the end we can't force anyone.
Like i said if your team were any good you would of optimised the source, what specs does your server run on and how much cpu usage does it use up? Have you actually tried cleaning it up? Anyone can copy and paste from the other sources from the chinese with heroes etc and put it into the stable delphi source. That pretty much what you have done.
No it isn't, the only people i've seen copy and pasting was Kyndigs (no offence Stephen but when we swapped sources them mob AI's were just a straight copy and paste). Not to mention, we don't code to chinese standards, so it would be pointless for us to copy and paste.
You go on about how badly they are coded;
#1 You have seen 2 year old sources
#2 I'd like to know from them what you considered to be so messy, show me an example of my work vs cheeky.
#3 How's unleashed going? Got a nice stable server running on that yet?
All in all, you don't actually know anything.
You must do... You mentioned both of them in your previous post he was quoting? :Svb.. c#.. u rly think i care what it is?
yer ok, we took a "messy delphi source" and "****ed it up even more"... ok cool.
tell me what exactly is ****ed in our source? i mean, the game runs fine... we got lots of nice new updates... so our source vs any other source out there atm... or ur so called c# project thats been goin on since 2004... i think id rather have my messy ****ed up sources thanks
and as we said to you before, the source u are basin your assumptions off, is nearly 2years old, so pls stop making yourself look like such a fool.
I actually thought you were an ok lad, but after your little outbursts on here, u remind me off some1 like ramboone, a stuck up little twat that thinks he knows it all, when in reality hes all talk.. and a complete loser.
Dam that bring thoughts lol , that was moons ago snice then lil has move all phili's mon code over.
But i will say your not giving matt much credit as hes kept the 4h code running.
Yeah becuase you don't code to any standards lol
#1 Really can't reply too but as i said AGAIN there won't be much improvement from 2 years ago to now. If it works you move on right?
#2 I'll dig your old source up again and show you.
#3 Actually go find DJ, he may of improved the engine but is running a server with the unleashed source - which are public :P (You'll need to be able to read spanish).
You can keep arguing but when the code (even if it is 2 years old) is staring me in the face i can see your so called standards and even for ametuer coders it's poor. You can see where you've looked at other functions and just used the same function to do another process bar changing afew variables. I know this because i did it when the delphi source was first ever released here and i worked with Cheeky and Nick.
